A court in Barishal grants bail to poet and journalist Henry Sawpon in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

This year, the minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 70 per person.

Journalists staged a demonstration in front of Jatiya Press Club yesterday, demanding that all media employees be paid their arrears and festival bonuses by May 30.

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Oli Ahmed yesterday said he is willing to take the responsibility for strengthening the 20-party alliance to free Khaleda Zia from jail and overcome the country’s political crisis.

Police are trying to find the guardians of a newborn baby girl, who was found abandoned on Tuesday in a toilet of Dhaka Shishu Hospital in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr on May 22 and for the first time, tickets will be sold at five different places in the city.

Eid Shopping Festival–2019

Sehri recomm-endations: Sehri is an important part of the Ramadan routine. That is why we have to make the best of it.

Nipironer Biruddhe Shahbagh, a platform of writers, artists, and journalists, yesterday issued a 24-hour ultimatum demanding unconditional release of poet Henry Sawpon and lawyer Imtiaz Mahmud.

The High Court yesterday observed that Dhaka city corporation authorities are negligent in curbing pollution and mosquito menace in the capital.

Mangoes started arriving in markets of Rajshahi yesterday. Prices are high due to low production this season, farmers and agriculturists said.

With its sun-kissed stretches of sand, shimmering blue and jagged coastlines battered by white breakers -- Cox’s Bazar sea beach never gets old.

Today marks the third death anniversary of Language Movement veteran, freedom fighter and journalist Sadeq Khan.

Indigenous community leaders yesterday demanded that the government allocate sector- and ministry-wise budget for their communities in the upcoming national budget for their wellbeing and development.

Police yesterday arrested a drug peddler, who used to introduce himself as a police informant, in possession of 510 yaba pills from Bakalia area of Chattogram.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader returned to Dhaka yesterday after receiving medical treatment in Singapore for over two months.

Bangladesh has sought support from the international community for its candidate for the post of Deputy Director General (DDG) of International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Traffic police are going for centralised and remote monitoring of traffic rule violations in the capital from June, with around 100 specialised close-circuit cameras being installed on 28km stretch of roads between Abdullahpur of Uttara and Kajla of Jatrabari.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a charge sheet against 391 persons including a clerk at deputy commissioner’s (DC) office in Rangpur in a case filed over issuing fake licences of firearms.

Barishal City Corporation (BCC) has started road repair work ahead of Eid.